Incidents and disasters awareness SecAware

Despite our best efforts to avoid or prevent incidents and avert disasters, they remain a possibility. Being prepared puts us in a better position to survive and thrive, keeping essential business processes and systems running despite the event (continuity and resilience), recovering non-essential ones as soon as practicable afterwards (recovery and resumption), and generally coping with whatever comes our way (contingency). Preparedness means being ready in case something unexpectedly goes seriously wrong. Whereas we may cope perfectly well with relatively minor events, more serious incidents or disasters such as the following require better preparation: Power cuts, surges and dips; Fires, overheating or smoke damage; Floods and leaks; Earthquakes, cyclones, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions or terrible storms; Hacks and social engineering attacks; Overloaded IT systems, out of capacity; Malware infections, spyware, ransomware; Mistakes by system administrators or users, plus “accidents...